Rocking printing-table for cash-registering apparatus.



No. 788,462. PATBNTED APR. 25, 1905. J. FRYDMANE 6: L. GHAMBON. ROCKING PRINTING TABLE FOR CASH REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10,1904.

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PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

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ROCKING PRINTING TABLE FOR CASH REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.. 10,1904.

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APPLICATION FILED MAB. 10,1904.

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No. 788,462. PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

J. FRYDMANB & L. OHAMBON. ROCKING PRINTING TABLE FOR CASH REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB. 10,1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ROCKING PRINTING-TABLE FOR CASH-REGISTERING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,462, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed March 10, 1904. Serial No. 197,582.

To (tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we. J ULES FRYDMANE and LoUIs CI-IAMBoN, citizens of the Republic of France, and residents of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing Mechanism for Cash-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object a rocking printing-table for cash-registering apparatus, permitting of verifying directly and simultaneously the detail-sheets of the salesman and also the stub or counterfoil of these sheets.

This printing-table takes the place in the checking and registering appliances described in the specification of United States Patent No. 738,670 of the printing device for the double tickets cut from a band of paper. It permits of printing upon the manuscriptsheets and of reproducing upon their stubs particularssuch as the amount of the sale, the number of the salesman, the series number of the sheet, the complete date, and so on so that any subsequent falsification of the books is rendered impossible. A constructional form of this improved printing-table is represented, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings, in whicl Figure 1 shows in side elevation this table as supplied to a checking and registering appliance of the kind described in the aforesaid prior specification. Fig. 2 is a corresponding plan view. Figs. 3 and 1 are cross-sections on the lines A B and C D, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 shows abill-sheetand its counterfoil before the impression of the checking and verifying particulars. Fig. 6 shows the same after the printing of these particulars. Figs. 7 and 8 show in cross-section the successive positions assumed by the table for printing on the bill and its stub. Fig. 9 represents in side elevation the position of the printing-table at the moment of printing the amount of the debit. Fig. 10 isa corresponding plan view. Fig. 11 shows in elevation the relation between the main cam-shaft of the apparatus and the parts which impart the rocking movement and the movement of lateral displacement to the impression table and plate. Fig. 12 shows in elevation the lever acting in combination with a clutch to connect at proper times the operating mechanism with the apparatus for moving the table. Fig. 13 shows in plan the connection of swinging impression-table with the operating means.

The printing-table, properly so called, a, is mounted upon a tubular horizontal spindle 5, carried by two small triangular side pieces 0 and (Z, fixed by means of stayed bolts 7 and g of this latter and which are intended to facilitate the impression. It is provided at its front portion with a recess, permitting of arranging the bill in position and of withdrawing it, and also with a flange it, serving as a stop or supportfor the bill, and, further, at the rear with a small finger '11, under which the'bill passes. The plate e is provided with two rods j and k, passed, respectively, Figs. Qand 1, within the tubes Zand m, freely passed through the table. The rods 1' and it, and consequently the plate 0, are constantly acted upon in the direction of the arrow 0; by spiral springs a. Each of the tubes Z and m is provided at its free extremity with a socket, upon which pivots a spring-hook 0, serving to engage at the proper moment a corresponding nose p of the plate a. A link 9, Figs. 1 and 9, connects the table a to a lever r, keyed upon the extremity of the shaft .9 of the checking appliance and to which an angular movement is communicated at the proper moment when the apparatus is operative, through a link L and lover L, receiving its motion from a cam on the main cam-shaft L connects the table a to a lever a, rocking upon the spindle for the printing-disks?) and upon which is mounted, by means of aspring, the inking-roller w for these disks. The characters are inked in the manner described in Patent No. 738,670. A third link a connects the table a to a lever b, rocking at c, and upon A second link 2. l

which are mounted the inking-roller d of the numberer and dater, and a connecting-rod 6 connected to the said numbering device and serving to automatically effect the changing of the series number. The numbering and dating device operates and is inked in the manner described in the above-mentioned prior United States patent, No. 7 38,67 0. The plate 0 also presents between the spring-rods j and a third rod f, Figs. 2 and 3, the extremity of which, guided in the tubular spindle b of the table a, is intended to encounter a lever g, rocking upon the small side plate 0, and which is connected, on the other hand, to a rod h, which normally locks the checking appliance. This rod passes, in fact, through an eye of the engaging lever z" of the said apparatus and by means of a nose looks the immobilizing-rod 70'. (See prior United States patent, No. 738,670.) A spring Z constantly tends to maintain the rod h in the locked position or position of repose represented in Fig. 3. It will be observed that the bell-crank locking-lever c" oscillates on a fixed axis, Figs. 12 and 13, one end embracing a clutch i on a shaft 2' carrying a worm-wheel w, meshing with a worm w on the cam-shaft U. A pulley 20 normally turns free of the shaft 2' but may be clutched therewith by the clutch The table (0 also carries a fixed rod m, serving as a stop for the heels of the hooks 0 for the purpose of lifting these latter and permitting of the release of the plate 6 when this latter moves back after the impression upon the bill-sheet and upon its stub of the particulars enumerated above. Finally, the the sleeves upon which the said hooks rock are connected by a kind of traverse a, conneoted with a lever 0, pivoted at p, and of which the opposite extremity carries a roller q, engaged in the groove of a cam a", which serves to produce when the cash-registering apparatus is operative the transverse displacements of the bill-supporting plate 6, as hereinafter described.

Operation: Each of the debit-slips or bills, Fig. 5, drawn up directly by the salesman is placed upon the plate 6 in the manner indicated above and in such a way that the portion forming the stub is situated on the same side as the finger 6. When this has been done, the operator presses the plate e in the direction of the arrow 00, Figs. 2, 3, ands, compressing the springs n n in such a inanner that it is seized by the hooks 0 0 and that the stub portion of the bill-sheet is situated beneath the printing-disks o, Fig. 7. In this movement the rod f has encountered the le ver 9 and caused it to assume the position indicated in dotted lines,Fig. 3,thus releasing the engaging lever 2" and the immobilizing-rod k. The cash-registering apparatus, the composing-disks of which have been suitably manipulated, as specified in the aforesaid prior specification, for reproducing the total of the debit-sheet engaged upon the plate eand also the salesmans number, may then be operated. Under the influence of this operation the shaft s operates the lever 0'- in such a manner that the table a rocks and approaches the printingdisks a, so that these latter may print upon the debit-sheet stub the particulars 1 in Fig. 6-that is to say, the salesmans number 32 and the total of the debit 365.15. As soon as this impression has been made the cam r becomes operative, and by the intermediary of the lever 0' and of the hooks 0 0 advances the plate a still in the direction of the arrow in such a manner that the sheet itself is beneath the printing-disks 2;, Figs. 8 and 10, and that on a fresh rocking movement of the table a these disks print at 2, Fig. 6, the same particulars as those previously printed on the stub. In this same rocking movement in the reverse direction the table (0 also presents the bill-sheet, properly so called, to the dater and numberer, which prints thereon at 3, Fig. 6, a reference-letter A, the complete date, 10 April, and the series number 0075 of the sheet. Then the cam r releases the plate e, so that it may return under the influence of the springs n n to the position shown in Fig. v

7, and when this has taken place the table (a is again rocked toward the dater and numberer, which prints upon the stub of the sheet at 4, Fig. 6, the particulars previously printed upon the body of the sheet itself. Finally, the cam again acts upon the lever 0, causing it to execute a supplementary travel such that the heels of the hooks 0 0 in encountering the fixed rod m of the table a rock and release the plate 0, which under the influence of the springs n a automatically resumes the position shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4.. It will be noticed that in this position the lever g has resumed its original place, Fig. 3. The rod it through the block is adapted to act on the bell-crank cam-shaft-locking lever b so as to cause it to enter a notch in the disk D on the cam-shaft L to stop the machine by locking the cam-shaft against further rotation. At the same time the rod it may ongage the clutch-lever to disconnect the pulley from the worm-wheel shaft. It will also be noted that it is then possible to withdraw the bill upon which all the verification particulars are printed, these particulars both upon the bill itself and upon its stub corresponding exactly with the particulars which have been registered by the apparatus and inscribed upon the checking and registering band with which it is provided.

We claim as our invention- 1. A cash-register, having printing means in combination with a paper-carrying plate, means for rocking said plate to give a printed impression, means for transversely moving it into a different operative position with reference to the printing means, and means for then rocking it to give a second impression, all during the printing of a single transaction.

2. A cash-register, having printing means for the amounts registered and numbering or dating printing means, a plate and means to rock it against both said printing means, in combination with means for transversely moving said plate to bring a diiferent portion thereof under the action of the printing means.

3. A cash-register, having a cam-shaft and printing means, in combination with a table and plate, a spindle on which the table is mounted, mechanism adapted to rock said table and actuated from said cam-shaft, and means also actuated from said cam-shaft for transversely moving said plate into different operative position beneath said printing means.

4. A cash-register, having printing means, in combination with a table and means for rocking it, a plate mounted for transverse movement upon said table, springs between the table and plate, and means for rocking said table, and for transversely moving it.

5. A cash-register, having printing means in combination with a table and means for rocking it, a plate mounted for transverse movement upon said table, springs between the table and plate, and means for rocking said table and for transversely moving it automatically upon the movement of the plate against its springs.

6. A cash-register, having printing means in combination with a rocking table, a plate movable transversely thereon, springs between plate and table, locking-pawls adapted to engage said plate when moved against its springs, mechanism for transversely moving said pawls and the engaged plate and means for rocking the table.

7 A cash-register, having printing means in combination with a rocking table, a plate said pawls and the engaged plate and means for rocking the table, and means for automatically disengaging said pawls upon an excessive motion of said mechanism.

8. A cash-register, having printing means and a rocking table beneath them in combination with a plate transversely movable on said tableandadapted to occupy a position free of the printing means, and also two diiferent positions beneath the printing means.

9. A cash-register, having printing means and a rocking table beneath them in combination with a plate transversely movable on said table and adapted to occupy two diflerent positions beneath the printing means.

10. A rocking printing-table for acash-register, a plate mounted thereon, tubular rods and catches thereon mounted to slide transversely within the table, rods slidable on said tubular rods and springs secured to the plate and means for moving the catches to bring the plate into diflerent transverse positions upon thetable, in combination with printing means above the table and means for rocking said table.

11. A rocking printing-table for a cash-register, a plate mounted thereon, tubular rods and catches thereon mounted to slide transversely within the table, rods slidable on said tubular rods and springs secured to the plate, and means for moving the catches to bring the plate into different transverse positions upon the table, in combination with printing means above the table and means for rocking said table, and an automatic locking means adapted to be unlocked upon the movement of the plate by hand into its first position beneath the printing means.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULES FRYDMANE. Louis OHAMBON.

Witnesses:

LEON FRANCKEN, HANSON G. Coxn. 

